Australian woman Leah Stewart was swimming off Sydney’s Coogee Beach on 13 June when her nightmare began. Witnesses at the beach said they suddenly heard a piercing scream, then saw that there was blood in the water.
Stewart, 34, was rescued from the water, but witnesses say (via The Guardian) that it was immediately clear she’d been bitten by a large shark, with her injuries consistent with those inflicted by a great white. Her family has confirmed on a fundraising page that in the attack she suffered “severe and life-threatening injuries with multiple bites across her arms and legs, lacerations and fractures throughout her body, and extreme blood loss.”
